Tag Archives: Atlanta Braves

The Dodgers and Diamondbacks have had a ‘lively’ rivalry of late, especially in 2013, but D-Backs GM Kevin Towers has decided to try and take things to the next level by saying a bunch of dumb stuff, including chastising his pitchers for not hitting enough players, inferring Kirk Gibson and the coaching staff was soft, and that Charles Nagy was ... Read More »

The Dodgers beat the Braves 4-3 in Game 4 of the 2013 NLDS, sending them to the NLCS. But whatever, enjoy the moving picture thingies. —– Carl Crawford got the game started right by homering to lead-off the game. He also did it again in his next at-bat… …because when you’ve homered once since May 7, it makes sense that ... Read More »

The Dodgers won by a score of 13-6 over the Braves in Game 3 of the 2013 NLDS, though the team went away from their usual pitching and defense formula. Instead, the offense exploded for 13 runs, led by Hanley Ramirez and Yasiel Puig, who each had three hits. Hanley was a homer away from a cycle. Starter Hyun Jin ... Read More »

Hyun Jin Ryu has been consistently solid all year long for the Dodgers, and there been little reason to doubt him. After a bit of a lull in the middle of the season, he bounced back to finish strong and alleviated any worries of a tiring arm or any other issues. As such, I felt confident going into Game 3 ... Read More »

Did Don Mattingly really do that to the Dodgers? Yes, yes he did. The title isn’t meant to be disrespectful to the Braves or infer that they didn’t deserve to win … but it never ever should have gone the way it did. It was just ridiculously bad decision making on Mattingly’s part. —– In the top of the seventh ... Read More »

Skip Schumaker filled in admirably for Andre Ethier and Matt Kemp during yesterday’s Game 1 win in the 2013 NLDS. He was never a real threat to make an impact, but he didn’t cost the Dodgers anything, and there was real value in that. Going into Game 2, however, it’s a different story because the Braves are going with lefty ... Read More »

The Dodgers beat the Braves in Game 1 of the 2013 NLDS, which is awesome, so look at these moving things and be entertained. —– Evan Gattis did this thing on an A.J. Ellis fliner to left, which helped the Dodgers strike early. There were also plenty of mental errors involving Yasiel Puig … but they were from the other ... Read More »

The Dodgers finally released their roster for the 2013 NLDS (‘finally’ because they had less than an hour to get it in), and it included some surprises. Good surprises. Starting Pitchers Clayton Kershaw Zack Greinke Hyun Jin Ryu Ricky Nolasco Relief Pitchers Kenley Jansen Brian Wilson J.P. Howell Ronald Belisario Paco Rodriguez Chris Withrow Chris Capuano No surprises with the ... Read More »

The Braves and Dodgers in the 2013 NLDS, because why not, right? Putting aside the respective fanbases, this is a matchup a lot of outsiders have expressed interest in, if for no other reason than to see the most habitual unwritten rule line-steppers take on the steadfast unwritten rule enforcers of grittitude. Basically, everybody wants to see Yasiel Puig and/or ... Read More »

The Dodgers have signed former Braves righty reliever Peter Moylan and former Nationals backstop Jesus Flores to minor-league deals with invitations to Spring Training. Flores has shown enough flashes that he could feasibly challenge for the backup job should Tim Federowicz falter, though he’s almost certainly going to spend the majority of the season in Albuquerque. Moylan figures to be minor-league ... Read More »

The Dodgers won yesterday’s game against the Braves 7 to 2, but the logistics of how they got that win is the interesting part. The team finished the game with 29 AB, 2 K, and 15 H. That means for balls-in-play, the Dodgers finished 15-for-27 for a team BABIP of .556 on the night. Furthermore, they had only one extra-base ... Read More »

With the Los Angeles Dodgers in the news for the impending bidding war over the ownership of the team, I thought this would be as appropriate a time as ever to run through the publicly declared bidders, as the deadline for submission has come and gone. Bill Shaikin of the Los Angeles Times breaks down the specifics of the bidding ... Read More »